BA passengers detained in US alert
US security and intelligence officials boarded a British Airways jet shortly after it landed at Washington Dulles International Airport
Some 247 passengers were detained for about three hours.
Homeland Security spokeswoman Rachel Sunbarger said intelligence led the FBI and Homeland Security Department to detain the flight, but an FBI official said the incident did not involve terrorism.
Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman Jennifer Marty said passengers aboard Flight 223 from Heathrow airport to Dulles were questioned aboard the plane.
Sunbarger said the baggage on board the flight underwent additional screening.
The plane was kept a couple of hundred yards from the terminal as a precaution until questioning was finished, another official said.
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